Frances (Sampson) Robins (1843 - 1923)

Born 1843 in England, United Kingdom

Wife of William Robins — married 24 Dec 1863 in Allens Creek, South Australia

Descendants

Died 17 May 1923 at about age 80 in Kapunda, South Australia, Australia

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Biography

Frances Sampson was born in England, daughter of Henry Sampson and Eliza Trounce. She migrated to South Australia on the Westminster in 1848.^[1]

She married William Robins on 24 December 1863 at his residence at Allens Creek near Kapunda. Both were aged 22; he was son of John Robins, she was daughter of Henry Sampson.^[2]

She died aged 80 on 17 May 1923 at Kapunda, South Australia.^[3]

ROBINS,—On the 17th May, Frances Robins, widow of William Robins, Kapunda, in her 81st year.

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DEATH OF MRS. ROBINS, SEN.
Another of South Australia's early colonists in Mrs. Frances Robins passed away at her residence. South Terrace, Kapunda. on Thursday evening. May 17, in her 81st year. She was the eldest of 12 children of the late Henry Sampson, of Allandale North. Born in Cornwall, England, in the year 1842, she came to South Australia with her parents in the year 1848. The early Victorian gold rushes attracted the late Henry Sampson, and in the late forties he and his wife and family endured the hardships ol the diggings. The late Mrs. Robins was of a retiring disposition, but to those who knew her (when she became reminiscent) her tales of the early goldfields and the old Colonial days bore the impression of one who had seen and endured. Fortunes were made and lost, poorer in pocket but richer in experience the family returned to South Australia, and with their earthly belongings travelled by bullock team to Allandale. In those old pioneering days the Burra claimed the family's attention, their journeys at times taking weeks in an old bullock dray. Finally the family settled in Allandale. and it was in 1863 at Allan's Creek, that the late Mrs. Robins married. Her husband, the late William Robins, took up farming in the district, and through many years of drought and hard work they roughed it together. Her late husband turned his attention to flour-milling in 1882, at Marrabel, and six years later he purchased the Kapunda Mill. The late Mrs. Robins survived her husband eleven years, and has left two sons and two daughters.

--Kapunda Herald, 25 May 1923^[4]

She was buried with her husband at Kapunda Cemetery.^[5]

Sources

1. ↑ SAMPSON, Henry, Biographical Index of South Australians database, accessed 7 March 2024 via Genealogy SA
2. ↑ SAMPSON, Frances, South Australian Marriage registrations index, Kapunda 56/136, Symbol=A, accessed 10 March 2024 via Genealogy SA
3. ↑ ROBINS, Frances, South Australian Death registrations index, Kapunda 462/68, accessed 10 March 2024 via Genealogy SA
4. ↑ Family Notices (1923, May 25). Kapunda Herald (SA : 1878 - 1951), p. 2. Retrieved March 11, 2024, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article108295272 ; http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article108295247
5. ↑ Find a Grave (has image), (Find A Grave: Memorial #197308403 : accessed 11 March 2024), Memorial page for Frances Sampson Robins (Oct 1842-17 May 1923), citing Kapunda Cemetery, Kapunda, Light Regional Council, South Australia, Australia; Maintained by ! woowoo (contributor 49949980).